Is music getting better?

music has always been getting better

anyone who disagrees hasn't listened to enough or is deluded boomer who can't take off their nostalgia goggles

>since about 2017
>this year has been one of the worst years of the 10s so far
>early 2010s was bad
>2010 and 2012 were some of the best years for music this decade

Go le wrong generation somewhere else you hulking fucking faggot

This decade has been worse than the 2000s in some ways, but a hell of a lot better in others. And I believe that we've really only scratched the surface of all the good stuff that come out this decade, which will reveal itself in the decades to come

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every time period has cornball artists but we collectively decide not to remember them, so it appears like the era you are experiencing is the cornball era.

>Has there ever been a time when the majority of the music was just ass
80's were ass imo, Metallica, Guns and Roses, Run DMC, Beastie Boys, were the exceptins
2010's were ass also with a few exceptions
>I've noticed since about 2017, music has been steadily getting more listenable in my opinion
I agree with this and think that's because record companies and big labels are losing their grip on the music industry

It’s the musical equivalent of Stockholm Syndrome, you have been beaten down is all
You might have to an hero

unironically this. on the one hand, surely there is some genius out there, just given the sheer amount of resources available (population wise, education wise, technology wise), but the odds are in fact AGAINST us ever coming into contact with that (except in parochial if not completely random ways). You have a mass of retards bogging down the attention economy like pic related because the few moguls willing to put up with the sheer arbitrariness of the industry can only ever use time-tested strategies to stay afloat, like appealing to the lowest common denominator of listeners. This is why you have absolute mongs listening to Tyler’s last record thinking they are experiencing “art” or “experimental” music. Because that really is what counts as art and experimental in a field overpopulated with subpar artists designed to be subpar.

2010 was a fucking great year for music, so much good shit came out in the early part of the decade that i'd argue it's only gotten worse. i just hope we see some big changes in the paradigm in the next decade because music sucks right now

true. 2019 has been absolutely atrocious.
I think as far as the next decade goes we're gonna get total garbage until some new genre blows up in the industry.

Music and art in general has been declining ever since the profit motive replaced making art for the sake of beauty. I don't mean we should go stick to making classical music forever. But that, even if you take the whole cultural movement we know as hip hop as an example, all of it has been decimated by the industry to the point were we have the most soulless and vulgar celebrities like Lil pump or Logic. The only genre that has preserved it's purity is electronic music for some reason. That shit keeps evolving.

Music will never die and there will always be something for everyone. The music industry is absolutely fucked now however.

It went from cringey indie rock to cringey meme rap, so no.

No, you are getting jewed

>I agree with this and think that's because record companies and big labels are losing their grip on the music industry
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It's more standardized than ever.

>ever since the profit motive replaced making art for the sake of beauty.
to use the word "replaced" here is a bit anachronistic. In your view, when did this event take place? Has there not always been music created to serve both (as well as many other) purposes?

Merely consider that much medieval music that we can study today appears to be firmly rooted in transcriptions of folksongs written by traveling performers, ie Bards and storytellers and has very little resemblance to "art music" of the same time period, which makes sense considering that the popularity, accessibility and entertainment value of their music directly equated to having food and shelter.

Art died when the beauty motive (i.e. "art for art's sake") replaced the religious motive desu

Are you seriously? It's obvious that this changed when capitalism became the mode of production.
>inb4
lolbertarians and /pol/tards get triggered

But the religious motive was for beauty sake too tho.

This is why i don't respect copyright laws

Scooter Braun could die and music would still be made. All they do is let him make money off shit he didn't make.

It changed when profiting off recordings became the mode of profit instead of live performance

So now we have shit like this

>hey you can't make a copy of your personal copy
>why? because i made the original
>that's stealing. i very nicely and monetarily asked the US government to make that against the law.
>woah, perform live for money? fuck you, i'm a rock star, i deserve to get rich off my hits. every penny is mine!
>Hey, you're just the rock star's producer...
>OY VEY